Gustav Category 3, Obama Categorey “Desperate”, Palin Category “Rising Star”:
Gustav Maxes:
New Orleans may get hit but this time they have a Govenor who is not stuck on stupid. Doing the right thing is what good governance is all about. The Dems always fail because it is more important that they do what “inflates” them regardless of what is right for the people who they are suppose to serve. Bobby Jindal is doing the right thing in Louisiana.
While Louisiana prepares for Hurricane Gustav, Dems gloat and guffaw; RNC opening night cancelled; Fowler apologizes
Obama sputters:
As Gustav gets ready to crash into New Orleans or some other coastal city Obama’s momentum has come to a lull and appears to be fluttering into November like a kite slowly swaying back and forth as it falls lazily to the ground.
Obama has tried everything: Hope, Change, German Crowds, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and now slandering Sarah Palin to get his kite back up. But the wind has died his string is limp! Only a few left over breezes may lift him off the ground here and there but there is not enough of a storm to keep him afloat. He will lie skimming along the ground like the dying kite that he is.
The Dems are showing their true colors with their attacks on Sarah Palin and now their glee at watching Hurracane Gustoav destroy peoples lives:
Zogby Poll: Equilibrium in the POTUS Race!
Brash McCain pick of AK Gov. Palin neutralizes historic Obama speech, stunts the Dems’ convention bounce
The latest nationwide survey, begun Friday afternoon after the McCain announcement of Palin as running mate and completed mid-afternoon today, shows McCain/Palin at 47%, compared to 45% support for Obama/Biden. (More Zogby) *** *** ***
Meanwhile Sarah Palin is the new Rising Star:
She is coming on strong as the real deal for conservatives. We like her and she is likable. The Dems don’t know what to do but try and smear her with lies. She will withstand the Dems artificial storm and head into November with McCain on the rise.
Dems try and trash Sarah Palin from Michelle Malkin:
Some history for Puff Daddy
Sean “Diddy” Combs isn’t too impressed with John McCain’s choice of running mate, and accuses McCain of “bugging the f— out!” As for Alaska, he wonders whether there are even any black people in the state.
Well, Diddy, there are: (See Michell Malkin)
Desperation from Democrats
posted at 9:56 am on August 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Now that almost a full day has passed since John McCain has named Sarah Palin as his running mate, we can already see the themes his political opponents will take in criticizing her. Irony runs through a number of these arguments, as most of them apply more to their own ticket than to the Republicans, and one in particular is just so despicable as to drop the jaw to the ground. Let’s take a tour of these, shall we?
It’s a desperation pick — he didn’t make up his mind until Thursday! (Hot Air)
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More Smear from the Dems; it’s all they have:
Andrew Sullivan jumps in on Palin’s grandma-gate rumor
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 8:59 AM A great column by The Manhattan Institute’s Lisa Schiffren, “The Fighter Pilot and the Moose Hunter.” (HT: Powerline) Key graph:
Is it irresponsible to put a half-term governor in the vice presidential slot? It depends on her record. But surely for a Washington novice, the vice presidency is more appropriate than the presidency. A half-term governor has more claim to leadership and experience than does a one-third-term U.S. senator who has risen through a big-city political machine. Palin is a woman of action, moreover, who has used her political capital at every stage to fight corruption and bad policy. It’s hard to find anyone in politics who does that; pols “save” their capital instead, as Obama has done by voting “present” on numerous occasions, lest spending it cost them something somewhere down the road. Her personal profile—raising five children, hunting, fishing, and being a real NRA member—make an appealing contrast with the overly cerebral, political calculations of those who merely hold positions and whose lives have been led in the service of their r?sum?s.
I am not going to write on the insanity that has swept parts of the left when it comes to Governor Palin, except to note that I never expected The Atlantic to allow its reputation, earned over long decades of excellence, to be dirtied with such sleaze.
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Dems are Desperately Blowing in the wind!
This post from Hot Air dispeals the Dem Rumors:
Desperation from Democrats
posted at 9:56 am on August 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Now that almost a full day has passed since John McCain has named Sarah Palin as his running mate, we can already see the themes his political opponents will take in criticizing her. Irony runs through a number of these arguments, as most of them apply more to their own ticket than to the Republicans, and one in particular is just so despicable as to drop the jaw to the ground. Let’s take a tour of these, shall we?
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It’s a desperation pick — he didn’t make up his mind until Thursday!
I doubt any of these women feel “insulted” by McCain’s choice, but even if they did, so what? McCain didn’t want a Washington insider as a running mate. None of the known short-listers came from DC with the exception of Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman would have been a special case anyway. He wanted a partner for real reform, someone with a track record of taking risks to pursue change and to clean up politics. All of these women are insiders, and most of them have no executive experience at all — and all of them are Senators. Why copy the Biden pick?
Sarah Palin wasn’t REALLY pregnant — it’s her daughter’s child.
This popped up on a Daily Kos diary and has unfortunately been repeated by bloggers who should know better. The rumor is a weird reversal of the John Edwards story, only this time, critics refute Palin’s maternity. Supposedly, so the story goes, the baby really was their eldest daughter’s (currently in high school), and not hers. The proof? At six months, Palin didn’t “look pregnant”, and supposedly her daughter had mono and took some time off from school. That’s it.
This is, simply, despicable. Babies born to teen mothers rarely have Down’s Syndrome anyway, whereas the possibility for that with a mother in her 40s is about 1 in 20. Athletic women sometimes do not show until late in the pregnancy. The whole rumor rests on the notion that the state’s most visible woman could carry out a fake pregnancy in front of the press while simultaneously hiding her daughter, and then pull a switcheroo — and for what possible purpose? To cover up a teen pregnancy, in this day and age? Give me a break.
The picture below was published at the end of February, and she certainly appears to be significantly wider than we saw yesterday on the dais.
If this is what the opposition comes down to, McCain made the wisest possible choice, and in the process exposed the opposition in a way that could never have been possible with any other running mate. (Hot Air)
